Access Policy Sheet for access control in fine-grained XML

Authors

Jing Wu, University of WollongongFollow
Yi Mu, University of WollongongFollow
Jennifer Seberry, University of WollongongFollow
Chun Ruan, University of Western Sydney

RIS ID

13249

Publication Details

This article was originally published as Wu, J, Mu, Y, Seberry, J and Ruan, C, Access Policy Sheet for access control in fine-grained XML, Proceedings of The First IFIP workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES 2005), Nagasaki - Japan, 6-9 December 2005. Also available at Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3813, 1273-1282. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2005.

Abstract

We propose an access control scheme for developing authorization rules for XML documents, allowing flexible data granularity and authorization propagation. To simplify the complex access control policies in XML, we introduce a new tool: Authorization Policy Sheet (APS). Complex access control rules can be easily described in an APS. The administrator of a system can easily manage the access control of the system. With aid of Data Type Definitions(DTD), the policies given in an APS can be converted into a standard XML code that can be implemented in a normal XML environment.